Is your garden office a "Prosecco pod”?

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Garden offices adding value to property

An article on The Irish Independent underlines the fact that garden offices are selling points when it comes to moving house and add value to any property (pictured above is the one at 2 Aideen Avenue, Terenure, D6W). Here are some snippets from the feature which looks at four of them:

There are two studios in the back garden of 71 Manor Street in Stoneybatter, one of which you could nearly live in, as it has a stove, a shower room and patio doors. There's plenty of room for both, as the garden is 130ft long and very nicely paved and planted.

Number 2 is the first in a terrace of six cottages and it occupies a corner site with a sizeable 40ft back garden, at the end of which is a block-built home office or studio measuring 226 sq ft.

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The Garden Retreat: A place for living show garden at Gardening Scotland

Today is the last day to get along to Gardening Scotland at the Royal Highland Centre Edinburgh and take a look at The Garden Retreat show garden and its garden room from Lynn Hill Garden Design and CED Stone Group (just inside the main entrance). There's a grey theme with silver grey granite pathways and slate Tier cladding. Here's what Lynn says about it:

This is a garden where inside and outside meet, it’s an extension of your home... a place for living. We are hearing more and more about how gardens are good for us and science is discovering that even just the simple act of being in a garden increases well being, allowing us to become calmer, healthier and happier. This garden is a real visual treat, an oasis of green.

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Shedworking: why more people are building businesses at the bottom of their garden

A nice general piece in the Daily Telegraph about the popularity of shedworking and garden rooms (though rather hilariously they didn't ask me to comment). Here's a snippet:

Garden Hideouts, which offers a range of state-of-the-art garden rooms, reports a growth in sales of between 30 per cent and 40 per cent over the past two to three years, while the Posh Shed Company, which does what it says on the tin, has seen a 14 per cent increase in sales since last year... Chris Hill, founder of Garden Hideouts, says: “The buildings we put up are as good as houses, thermally and insulatively speaking. It’s like lifting a sitting room or office out of your house and putting it in the garden.”

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Garden office landscaping tips

Waltons' blog is always an interesting read, often crowdsourcing the best of garden/shed bloggers' thoughts, and their recent look at shed landscaping tips is no exception. Here's a snippet:

Lisa of Lisa Cox Designs has some sound layout advice: “Deciding where to locate the shed will depend on whether or not you want to make a feature of it or not” . She goes on to talk about the more asthetic aspects:

If it’s pretty and you want to see it then why not enhance the overall appearance with a lick of paint and some accessories.

Painting your shed in a bold colour to make it really stand out can be very effective. An unexpected pop of red, orange or turquoise will transform a humble utility building into a striking statement.

Image courtesy Rotunda 

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Triangular garden room office

You don't often see a triangular garden office, in fact, this is the first I've come across. It's a cedar wood-clad bespoke design by eDEN Garden Rooms who stepped in when the client was having difficulty finding a supplier which could handle the unusual shaping requirements which they had designed themselves.
 
"With such an unusual and unique design comes a slightly more complex build process," says eDEN's Mia Walmsley. "With every cut of timber being at an angle, this was a more complicated build than the average eDEN project, but our team rose to the challenge, and as you can see, the outcome was very special."

The main space is designed for office use and to double up as an area for Pilates. There is also a toilet room. Bi-fold doors open onto wrap-around decking and there are additional windows at the front and back.

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Working from home makes people happier and more productive: new report

A new survey from totaljobs indicates that one in four people in the UK would move jobs if they weren’t allowed to work from home, increasing to nearly half of millennial workers.

Totaljobs’ research shows that shedworking and homeworking in general is in the top five most important benefits when looking for a new job, beating enhanced parental leave, travel allowances and learning and development.

One in five workers would pick a job that offered remote working over one that did not when deciding on a new role. Given the choice, two fifths of the UK workforce prefer working from home, a figure that rises to almost half of 18-34-year olds as opposed to a third of over 55s.

Two thirds of bosses polled offer remote working options to their workforce, with a little over a third of these employers saying they do so to help employees manage their work-life balance. Interestingly, a quarter of employers offer the option to work from home in a bid to reduce staff sick leave.

Morevoer, one fifth of employers believe their staff are more productive and happier when working remotely which is backed up by employees, as a similar number of employees believe they’re more productive when working from home. Over a quarter of employees also believe that being allowed to work from home is a show of trust from their boss.

In terms of where to work, only one in ten say that they’re happiest when working in an office environment. Only 4% of workers said they’d prefer to hot desk in their office, and just 2% would choose a co-working space. When asked about working remotely, 22% said there are fewer distractions contributing to their overall sense of improved productivity.

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